Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch, Opening, part 2, sentence 82
The Moor, who was wroth with Sir Lancelot, abode not still, but reined back his steed, and laid his spear in rest as one who was keen to fight.
Who acts: Moor · What happens: be, rein back, lay, fight · To what, where: steed, spear, rest
This is a sentence of «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moor | det |
| 2 | Moor | moor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reined | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wroth | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 wroth | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wroth | cop |
| 6 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Moor | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 Sir | case |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wroth | obl |
| 9 | Lancelot | Lancelot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sir | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 abode | punct |
| 11 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Sir | appos |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 still | advmod |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 abode | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reined | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 reined | cc |
| 16 | reined | rein | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 reined | advmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 steed | nmod:poss |
| 19 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reined | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 laid | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 laid | cc |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reined | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 spear | nmod:poss |
| 24 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 rest | case |
| 26 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 laid | obl |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 keen | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 keen | cop |
| 31 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 fight | mark |
| 33 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 keen | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 reined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Moor | with Sir; wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rein back | past | the Moor | Moor's steed | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | the Moor not said here | Moor's spear | rest | as one | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent spear=Result as one=Attribute | ||
| 4 | is | past | who nsubj; keen property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fight | to-infinitive | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Morien: A Metrical Romance Rendered into English Prose from the Mediæval Dutch» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 8447 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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